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Sara Summers Stanton has raised three children and works as a high school teacher at the same school she attended growing up. Her 25-year marriage is showing cracks in the facade and now she's dealing with breast cancer. In a rare moment of taking care of herself instead of everyone else, Sara takes a sabbatical and goes on the trip to Italy she has always dreamed of taking. This search for a more authentic life leads to Julia, a friend she hasn't seen since they were inseparable as girls, nearly 30 years earlier. They reunite in Florence and their friendship continues where they left off, resulting in an unexpected attraction....

The Diaries of Adam and Eve is Twain's humorous take on the myth of the Garden of Eden, as told by the participants. The joys and conflicts described will be familiar to all who labor with and love the opposite sex.

Die meisten von uns haben diese allseits bekannte Stimme im Ohr, die vieles, wenn nicht sogar alles schlecht redet, wie z. B.: "Du bist zu dick", "Du bist zum Rechnen zu untalentiert", "Dieses oder jenes kannst du gleich vergessen. Das brauchst du gar nicht erst versuchen" usw. So ergeht es auch Susanne. Sie hat es mit ihrer Anti-Psychiaterin besonders schwer getroffen. Ständig liegt ihr Ursula Hexengans mit destruktiven Botschaften im Ohr.

Isabella is a young émigré from the USSR who discovers her artistic talent as a way to cope with culture shock and escape from her traditional criticizing Jewish mother. Lost in America, Isabella searches for a true home all over the world. She lives in Paris and Rome, ventures out to Australia, returns to Russia in search for her tribe, all the while recording these new locales and her feelings about them with her brush. It is only after losing her passion under the strains of money, romance, and indulgence that she realizes that her painting practice has always been her home base.

Henriette Liebling ist unzufrieden mit ihrem Leben. Sie hat sich eingerichtet in der Ereignislosigkeit mit einem sicheren, aber langweiligen Job, einer schönen, aber sterilen Wohnung und einer netten, aber monotonen Beziehung. Ganz klar: Das ist nicht ihr "Lieblingsleben". Das ist höchstens Plan B. Und so steht sie vor der Frage: Wie wird man eigentlich erwachsen, ohne sich selbst aufzugeben? Und: Muss sie ihr Leben ändern - oder sogar sich selbst?

This work is intended to stand unto itself as more a living, breathing portrait of art painted with carefully chosen words, than just as a really interesting story told. The intent here is for the listener to view the landscape through the eyes of the main character, to feel what he does as he ambles along in this adventure. When the main character feels the pain and pleasures of the old dirt road, then all will only be right if the listener feels these same identical experiences.

In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from 30 best-selling and award-winning authors - including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child - with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Set between Moscow, Russia and St Andrews, Scotland, it tackles the metaphysics of golf, the mindset of the classic Russian novels and the power of art and music to rewrite reality, as Aneliya comes into contact with an angelic presence named Xstabeth who simultaneously fulfils and disappears both her father and her lover. Written in a tender, mythical key, it is a love letter to the books of Chandler, Nabokov and Dostoevsky and also a musical text, with chord progressions appearing at key points in the action, so that the audiobook may be sung, played or otherwise accompanied.

Since the 1970s, the name Stephen King has been synonymous with horror. His vast number of books has spawned a similar number of feature films and TV shows, and together they offer a rich opportunity to consider how one writer's work has been adapted over a long period within a single genre and across a variety of media - and what that can tell us about King, about adaptation, and about film and TV horror. Starting from the premise that King has transcended authorship, Screening Stephen King explores the impact and legacy of over 40 years of King film and television adaptations.

Beginning with "Why Women Fight Pirates," Walley writes, "A real woman will not be content with one man. With one man, she will rage, eat into herself and him. She will jump off the pirate ship onto a ship that is gracefully billowing with sails of humanity and the caring of, a ship full of love, of fools. She will not stay isolated in one man's private war with his maleness."

Lexie Baltimore is dedicated to helping people return to God through her inspired sculptures. But when the subject of her next project is a pastor, she wonders why such a godly man would require her guidance. And as her frustrations with her atheist husband grow, Lexie finds her admiration for the minister turning to attraction. 

A former star and high school standout, first-year student, Kennedy, is quickly humbled by her new surroundings. Classes, team politics, and even simple friendships are difficult to pace, let alone master. Initially, she grins and bears it, mostly because that is what the ultraconservative college leadership encourages. “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Besides, new obstacles give Kennedy something to focus on other than the cute girls sitting in her lectures, sporting spandex at practice, and moving in right next door.

En anderledes, dybt personlig og original roman om at gå. Gå ind i sig selv. Gå ud i verden, søge friheden, krydse broer og grænser. Gå i Rimbauds fodspor. Men det er også en roman om at gå på druk eller gå i hundene og mest af alt ligne en vagabond eller landstryger. Således er bogen en hyldest til det frie liv og til kunstneren som outsider.

The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen Venables, Alfred Lansing and others, Epic is a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world’s most famous peaks, often in the worst possible conditions!

Conceived from unsavory circumstances and adopted into love and patience, Kennedy Davenport has become a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist. But under her designer clothes and distinguished, polished appearance lie the remnants of her biological parents, a brutal birthright damaged by desire, ego, and a series of wrong decisions. Will the blemishes of her family secrets and their sordid past keep Kennedy from the life she desires and destroy her chance of receiving the accolades she deserves? To Kennedy, her past is a debt that needs to be paid.

Casey Banks is a devoutly anorexic man who discovers he can see the future by binge-eating. His new plan? Perform visions for cash while staying thin by any means necessary. Reading futures proves to be lucrative, but when he ignores a vision of his girlfriend committing a grisly murder, it sets Casey on a dangerous path toward a destiny he'll do anything to avoid.

The year is 1975. Bill and Bob are two American friends on leave from their foreign study programs in Germany. They plan to drive across Europe and into the Balkans, with their sights set on visiting Istanbul and exploring the Turkish coast. Their plans take a sudden detour when they meet George—a renowned Armenian-Iraqi competitive bicycle racer with an irresistible personality and a flair for the dramatic. George says he is driving to Beirut with his girlfriend and her mother to sell his car, but in reality, he has a deeper plan.

Although Old Sally has been gone a year, Violet still hasn’t gotten over the loss of her beloved grandmother, with whom she shared the connection of the ancient Gullah magic. Mired in grief despite her thriving tea shop in downtown Savannah, what Violet wants more than anything is to hear from her grandmother - especially when her Gullah intuition indicates a storm is brewing.

Glimmer Globe Theatre is thrilled to present Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A Full-Cast Audiobook to mark our eighth annual production of this classic tale! This new audiobook production features the voices of 30 regional and local performers (including many Glimmer Globe veterans and newcomers) bringing to life every one of Dickens' characters as they appear in the original text. The production also features music by Rob Montecalvo and B.J. Baker, as well as sound effects, and perhaps some surprises along the way!

The store Avery Maier purchased is more than a disaster, it's dangerous. When Liam Gunnerson offers to untangle its finances, she has to accept. He's everything that Avery is not, and he keeps digging into the dark corners of her life. So why does she turn to him again and again? And what right does she have to hope if her future was set in stone the night she lost her fiancé? Liam never wanted to come back to Moose Hollow. But now, even Montana may not be far enough away from the trouble that's following him.